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...assumption that Eastern church traditions are closer to original Christianity than Western traditions. Yet few Protestants took offense. Said Lutheran Professor Hendrikus Berghof of The Netherlands: "Our Orthodox friends speak very frankly. They say, 'You are not the church, and we are the church,' and we applaud. We need a real conversation...
...Roman Catholic Church and the Polish farmer enjoy a degree of freedom unparalleled behind the Iron Curtain, faithful Communist Gomulka had led his nation's policies safely back into the arms of Moscow. Now Khrushchev was back, and everywhere party workers had crowds organized to cheer and applaud him. "I am an old man," said Nikita Khrushchev, 65, rambling on in lengthy speeches, "and when I am allowed to talk, I talk...
When the Shah finally ended the press conference, the newsmen stood to applaud the ruler who had asked them to put him on the spot...
...begins to count something on his fingers, then having lost his aplomb, his face breaks into a smile, he waves his arms and begins himself to applaud the question...
...last week, 1,000 patrons-many of them conventioneering Rotarians-streamed into the theater each night to applaud the delicate Shaw-Campbell exchanges. Some fidgeted at the length: two full hours on a virtually bare stage. But almost everyone enjoyed the unfolding affair by letter, which began in 1899 when Actress Campbell was at the height of her beauty and Playwright Shaw at the beginning of his brilliance, and ended in 1940 when Mrs. Campbell died in bitter poverty and Shaw at 82 plaintively wrote...